A number of latest Netflix Original animated function movies will are available in 2023 and past. Below, we’ve compiled a listing of each animated film we all know that’s in growth thus far that we’ll maintain up to date over time.
Netflix Animation had a turbulent 2021, to say the least. Although they launched a few of the best-animated titles in Netflix historical past, the group additionally noticed important cutbacks and reorganizations with key management roles modified.
Those within the United States might be handled to all of the Netflix Original animated function movies listed beneath and your complete output of DreamWorks, Illumination, and Sony Pictures Animation.
List of Upcoming Animated Feature Films Coming Soon to Netflix
Please be aware: any titles listed beneath are topic to alter.
Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget
Director: Sam Fell
Studio: Aardman Animation
Picture: Aardman Animation
If you may consider it, it’ll have been 23 years since DreamWorks launched the unique Chicken Run by the point this sequel comes out.
Now, an all-star solid comes collectively for a brand new entry. Among the voice solid for the brand new entry consists of Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones), Zachary Levi (Chuck), and Thandiwe Newton (Westworld).
Here’s what you may anticipate from the brand new entry:
“When Ginger and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. For Ginger and her team – even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk – this time, they’re breaking in!”
Ember
Director: Sergio Pablos
Studio: The SPA Studios
Country of Origin: Spain
Picture: Netflix
In this hand-drawn animated film from the director of Netflix’s beloved Christmas film Klaus comes a brand new function movie which is an “epic adventure tale of humankind’s quest for fire told through the eyes of young Dikika who embarks on an impossible race to a distant volcano to retrieve the precious spark that will save her tribe.”
Escape from Hat
Director: Mark Osborne
Studio: Netflix Animation
Based on the ebook by Adama Kline and Brian Taylor, Escape From Hat brings mild to the traditional mysteries of magic. In a fairy story the place black cats are unhealthy and magic rabbits are good, steadiness is threatened when one such rabbit is solid right into a mysterious realm of hazard and shadow.
There, our determined hero rallies an sudden band of allies and undertakes an unattainable quest to flee from inside a magician’s hat – and return to the human boy he dearly loves.
Academy Award-nominated director Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda, The Little Prince) is behind the film.
High within the Clouds
Director: Timothy Reckart
Studio: Gaumont Animation, Netflix Animation
Adapting the Paul McCartney ebook, this household function is a few squirrel embarking on a journey to search out an animal sanctuary. The film is ready to function brand-new music from The Beatles member.
Timothy Reckart direct who has beforehand directed the 2012 quick Head Over Heels and 2017’s The Star. Production on the film reportedly came about between August 2018 and May 2022.
According to our sources, the film is ready to launch in the summertime of 2023 with a July third, 2023 launch date at the moment eyed.
I, Chihuahua
Studio: Netflix Animation
Director: Jorge R. Gutiérrez
Picture: Netflix
Announced in March 2022 is the brand new animated function movie from the director of Netflix’s glorious mini-series Maya and the Three. It’ll function Gabriel Iglesias and is a few younger Chacho who wears a wrestling masks to change into a legendary fighter.
Nimona
Studio: Annapurna Pictures
Director: Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
Based on the ND Stevenson novel, this animated mission was beforehand at twentieth Century Fox earlier than Disney acquired it and subsequently canceled.
The film’s voice actors embrace Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, and Eugene Lee Yang.
Onyeka And The Academy Of The Sun
Studios: Westbrook Studios
Picture: Tolá Okogwu
First introduced in February 2022, this new film comes from the manufacturing firm helmed by Will Smith with David Oyelowo to additionally produce.
The story is about an adolescent discovering that she has tremendous powers after which travels to Nigeria to be taught extra about her origins. There, she discovered a menace to her newfound magical neighborhood.
Pashmina
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Studios: Bend It Films, Hyde Park Entertainment
This animated musical film tells the story of an Indian-American woman who rediscovers her heritage by way of a magical pashmina.
The film was introduced again in early 2019.
Alongside the announcement, Ashok Amritraj mentioned: “Pashmina is a wonderful coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, and one that I believe Netflix families around the world will enjoy experiencing together.”
Steps
Director: Alyce Tzue
Studio: Netflix Animation
First introduced in March 2021, this new musical animated function movie will come from Amy Poehler’s manufacturing firm, Paper Kite Productions.
In a spin on the basic Cinderella story, two stepsisters are ignored for marriage by the Prince and embark on an epic journey, realizing that their very own good fairytales is likely to be completely different from what they initially thought.
Sulwe
Director: Unknown
Studio: Unknown
Based on Lupita Nyong’o’s youngsters’s ebook, this animated comedy was first introduced in February 2021.
Sulwe has the darkest pores and skin in her household and in her college. She needs for her pores and skin to be lighter, however by means of a supernatural expertise, she comes to like her darkish pores and skin shade.
That Christmas
Studio: Locksmith Animation
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
This new animated function movie set round Christmas is predicated on the kids’s books by Richard Curtis.
Here’s what you may anticipate from the story:
“That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about love and loneliness, family and friends, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys!”
The Family Treehorn
Director: Ron Howard
Studio: Animal Logic
Also referred to as The Shrinking Of Treehorn, this film based mostly on the ebook by Florence Parry Heide was acquired away from Paramount Animation and produced by Netflix’s inner studio, Animal Logic.
The film is Ron Howard’s first animated function movie and is a few younger man who begins shrinking in dimension after enjoying a wierd board sport, which works largely unnoticed by his mother and father.
The Goon
Director: Patrick Osborne
Studio: Blur Studio, Dark Horse Entertainment
One method or one other, this animated function movie based mostly on the comedian has been in growth for over a decade beginning its life as a Kickstarter mission.
In the summer season of 2022, it was introduced that Netflix would choose up the title and distribute the film with the studio behind Love, Death and Robots engaged on the function movie.
The Magician’s Elephant
Director: Wendy Rogers
Studio: Julia Pistor Productions, Animal Logic
In manufacturing all through 2021, it’s anticipated that The Magician’s Elephant will drop someday in 2023, and it comes from the studio that Netflix acquired in 2022.
Based on the kids’s ebook by Kate DiCamillo, this film is about what occurs when a fortune teller tells an orphan boy that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister.
Pixies Davies, Noah Jupe, and Benedict Wong are set to lend their voices within the function.
The Monkey King
Director: Anthony Stacchi
Studio: Netflix Animation, Pearl Studio
Picture: Netflix
The director of The Boxtrolls might be behind this new journey animated film with scripts penned by Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman.
Here’s the official description of the synopsis:
“After the Dragon King steals his staff, the Monkey King sets off on a mission to get it back. But his greatest enemy proves to be his own pride.”
The confirmed voice solid consists of BD Wong, Stephanie Hsu, Jimmy O. Yang, Hoon Lee, and Ron Yuan.
The Witch Boy
Studio: Vertigo Entertainment
Director: Minkyu Lee (though reportedly now not)
Based on the graphic novels by Molly Know Ostertag, this animated film is being produced by Vertigo Entertainment (The Lego Movie), with HAIM concerned within the soundtrack.
In a secret, a magical neighborhood the place women are born to be witches and boys develop into shapeshifters, Aster is shocked to find his rising and extraordinary witch powers. When a mysterious hazard threatens his world, Aster should embark on a journey to uncover the reality behind himself, his powers, and every little thing magical.
Thelma the Unicorn
This film is predicated on the novel by award-winning Australian youngsters’s writer Aaron Blabey. Netflix first picked it up in 2019.
When a uncommon pink and glitter-filled second of destiny makes Thelma the Pony’s want of being a unicorn come true, she rises to prompt worldwide pop-superstar stardom, however at an sudden value. Thelma the Unicorn is a joyful story about studying to like who you might be… even in the event you don’t have sparkles.
Ultraman
Director: Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima
Studio: Industrial Light & Magic, Netflix Animation and Tsuburaya Productions
Verging extra into the anime territory is a brand new animated film on the beloved Japanese superhero.
The creator of Netflix’s Lost Ollie is behind this new function movie and is a few celebrity baseball participant returning to Japan to hold on the legacy of being Ultraman.
Untitled Steve Box Animated Film
Director: Steve Box
Studio: SUPERPROD Animation
Country of Origin: France
Picture: Netflix
Steve Box is behind the beloved Wallace & Gromit function movie Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit and might be bringing a brand new yet-to-be-titled function movie to Netflix.
Here’s the premise of the brand new movie:
“Struggling to feed themselves with the proceeds of their ever-inventive, but low-yield heists, Tibbles and his rag-tag gang of stray cats are forced to go undercover to pull of the biggest heist of their lives, posing as the thing they most despise – the pampered pets of suburbia.”
Wallace & Gromit
Directors: Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham.
Studio: Aardman Animation
The duo of Wallace & Gromit first graced British screens in 1989 and has seen quite a few spin-offs, sequence, and have movies since, however now they’re headed again on the large display.
The BBC will distribute the film within the United Kingdom and Netflix in every single place else.
The movie “sees Gromit becoming concerned that Wallace is a little too dependent on his inventions. When Wallace’s “Smart Gnome” develops a thoughts of its personal, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his grasp…or Wallace might by no means be capable to invent once more!”
This title has been confirmed to come back to Netflix in 2024 though we’re anticipating some updates publicly in 2023.
A number of notes to spherical out this text. First let’s run by means of a number of titles which can be anticipated to come back to Netflix however have restricted info:
- Ronnie Del Carmen is engaged on a yet-to-be-titled Netflix animated function movie, though we do realize it’s based mostly on lore and mythology from the Philippines.
- The Red Wall books by Brian Jacques are being tailored into a number of titles together with films with Patrick McHale writing.
- The Witcher is ready to get one other animated film.
And lastly, a number of animated function movies now not in growth at Netflix:
- Cattywumpus, an animated function movie by Gore Verbinski, was beforehand headed to Netflix however is now not in growth.
- Previously introduced for Netflix, it’s unclear whether or not Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm might be headed to the service anymore.
- Bubbles, the animated film about Michael Jackson from Taika Watiti, is now not at Netflix.